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on May 15
William Walker
commented on a project@John: The correct number should be 2,105. I received the following from Robin Jacobs. "Please refrain from speaking on my behalf in the future, I´m a backer and I´m NOT angry so there are no 2106 backers angry,." He took the time and effort to post that to www.zionkick.com so we must assume he's happy with the Zioneyez "efforts". I was tempted to offer to sell him my $150 share for only $100 (what a deal) but it seemed like that would simply be rubbing salt into an already festering wound.
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on May 14
William Walker
commented on a projecthttp://www.kickstarter.com/projects/vergencelabs/redefine-reality-with-computing-enabled-eyewear… Damn! I thought these were the Zioneyez guys making a new pitch under a new name. That would be pretty ballsey, trying to pull that one off. These new guys must have thought "Hey, those Zioneyez guys pulled a nice scam. Let's do it too." I knew a guy back in the internet stock bubble days who specialized in selling stocks to people who had already been ripped off. He said the more times they had been ripped off the easier it was to get them to go for another scam. Which just goes to show....what we thought we were paying for will eventually become a viable product. It's an idea whose time has come. Eventually we'll be able to buy a pair of glasses like what we're looking for. I'd sure like to bump into those Zioneyez guys some day in a dark alley.....tell 'em how much I appreciate 'em.
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on May 14
William Walker
commented on a projectWould everybody please just settle down. The Zioneyez "team" is currently busy scraping the names off of some $39.95 video glasses they bought for us and then putting a Zioneyez sticker on them. Give 'em a break. They've got to keep testing that Firefly vaporizer too. It ain't easy working on glasses when you're ripped outta yer skull on good bud. And with $340K to spend you can bet they got enough to keep that Firefly burning for a long time.
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on May 14
William Walker
commented on a projectA freelance journalist is looking for backer comments about uncompleted crowdsourced funding projects. Preferably a comment from the legal perspective, specifically the rights of donors, including Australians that might donate to a US based project. Go to my blog at www.zionkick.com and I'll connect you with the journalist.
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on March 20
William Walker
commented on a projectA person who pre-ordered but is not a backer so he cannot post to this site....posted on Zionkick.com the following information: "Hey everyone, just found this site. I've been blocked by them on facebook so I cannot post there, and as I pre-ordered through their website, I am unable to comment on the kickstarter page(which I just recently found). I pre-ordered the glasses through their website last summer as did quite a few other people I know and I'm sure many others have too. Pre-ordering through their website made it look like it was an actual pre-order for their product and not just funding the development of a product that I'll now likely ever see. I'f you include the amount of people that probably pre-ordered through their site, they've likedly raised far more than the $343k it currently says on their kickstarter page."
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on February 16
William Walker
commented on a projectHere's what those who work at Kickstarter care about: http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/kickstarters-double-million-dollar-day.php That's a $100,000 pure profit day for them. Once they get their cut, they're done with it. They wash their hands and it's on to the next hustle. Basically they're a bunch of "fluffers". Do a google to find out what a fluffer does for a living. They get paid for getting us excited enough to give money to their clients so they can reach their "goal". In the case of Zioneyez, it appears the goal was to get the money. After the money's been squirted out, they've got other things to do. Nothing's gonna happen until we get pissed off enough to make things happen. I'll bet 95% of the backers are just going to sit back, take the loss and chalk it up to the fact that they've been losers all their lives so one more loss is no big deal. That leaves about a hundred of us that are going to have to do something if anything is going to ever happen. I put up a blog where we can organize and figure out what we're going to do. I don't have the resources to get the job done by myself. It's not time for anonymous to get involved, it's time for the backers to get involved instead of sitting back and waiting for someone else to do it.
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on February 1
William Walker
commented on a projectOzy -- See how your reply compares with the one they sent me. Look about 10 posts below. Form letter? You can post the reply you get to www.zionkick.com in any one of the comment sections. It's a data collection site for legal purposes. So far it's short on good data. Find some and throw it in.
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on January 31
William Walker
commented on a project1/26/12 "...we had to partner with a manufacturer to produce Zeyez, rather than assemble them ourselves...." The implication is that their original game plan was to hand assemble 300+ pair of glasses themselves. I find that idea absurd. One look at that pitiful prototype on Engadget tells me they don't have the skills to pull that off. It's beginning to look like this was a hustle from the very beginning. Bookmark zionkick.com in case Kickstarter pulls this site. It will be important to keep up with the legal case being made against the perps.
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on January 31
William Walker
commented on a projectI asked for my $150 back and received the following reply: Hi William, Thanks for your Kickstarter backing! Unfortunately, we have no infrastructure established to refund our Kickstarter backers. The Kickstarter backing is the driving force behind Eyez production, and we appreciate the support our Kickstarter community has given us. The ZionEyez team is working diligently to get Eyez to you as soon as possible. We will be sending a product distribution update in the near future, outlining product shipment dates. Thanks for your support! -The ZionEyez Team
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on January 24
William Walker
commented on a projectPlease note that this is a Wordpress site I just registered and I've never used Wordpress before so consider it to still have the training wheels on it. It will soon be up there running with the big dogs. zionkick.com
William Walker
William Walker joined Kickstarter on June 16, 2011
